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Oops, forgot to put that in the description. I have a plastic pot in the enclosure, about nine or ten inches high with an eight inch diameter, filled with moist sand. I know that she has been inspecting this sand, since the sand has a large number of footprints in it. If she was pregnant it...

Sorry for the confusion, night lighting does indeed mean no lighting at all. The climbing vine is just a vine, no foliage. I am somewhat ambivalent about the one fake plant I have in there, cuz it's not very useful. She rarely goes over there, and there are no bite marks on it, so I think it's...

I am a new owner as well, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but I would hold off on feeding him any calcium with D3. This supplement is meant for bimonthly usage only. I mistakenly fed my chameleon calcium with D3 supplement for the first week I had her, and she spent the following week...

http://webhome.idirect.com/~chameleon/feature/index.html Here is a good info sheet on MBD. Generally indicated by bowed limbs, bent casque, difficulty in moving, a few other symptoms.

That seems like an awful lot of handling of your chameleon. I have heard that that much can significantly decrease its life span. I would also suggest feeding more crickets, if I am reading your information correctly you are only feeding it about one per day. Most people recommend two methods of...

I have been a chameleon owner for about a month. When I first purchased my chameleon, I had very poor husbandry- poor light placement, not enough foliage, only fed her mealworms, used substrate, etc. Over the past month, however, I have been taking numerous suggestions from this community and...

Good info. What does the process of acclimatizing a chameleon to hand-feeding entail?

I am thinking it would probably be best for me to stick to crickets, because cockroaches are probably too big for my chameleon to handle, and because my chameleon is not very receptive to hand-feeding. Generally has a fear of humanity, dunno how to properly acclimate her to hand feeding. She was...

Flux, can I ask how old/big your chameleons are?

My chameleon has only ever eaten crickets and mealworms, do you think she'd be able to adjust easily to cockroaches? If so, what size is good for a 6 mo. old female?

Thanks, that's excellent advice!

Damn, cool. What sort of system do you have set up with them?

Or, should I just try breeding cockroaches instead? I have heard they are easier to breed.

I have received recommendations from this site to purchase crickets from Ghann's in bulk, and I figured it would make the most sense economically to just get a thousand or whatever and try to breed them. I am using this guide http://www.edubook.com/how-to-breed-crickets/25852/, but this says...

I am a new chameleon owner but so far I have found mealworms to be very useful for feeding once a week to deliver whatever additional supplement is needed. It seems to me that the best thing to do with feeding your chameleon is to feed it crickets every day dusted with calcium, and then once a...

Thanks! Nope, not lucky bamboo. They're just the height of her enclosure, so they're kinda perfect for her, but I figured I would ask just to be sure.

I took my chameleon (female veiled, 6 mos. old) out for some sun today and let her roam around the bamboo we have growing out there and it seemed to work really well for her. Can you think of any negative effects of cutting a few shoots from the bamboo out there and putting it in her cage...

I was going to make a few changes to my chameleon's enclosure and I figured I would run it by the community as I do most things. First of all, we're swapping out her egg-laying container for a bigger one- used to be about three inches deep, our new one has a 7" diameter and is 7" deep...

That's horrible! I admire you for nursing him back to health, I don't know if I would've been able to do that. I hope all goes well for you and your chameleon.

Ivanho, when you feed your chameleon crickets, do you release them in the cage, or put a tupperware container with crickets into the enclosure?